Cary J. Martin - Honorary Research Associate

Cary
Martin is a specialist in demotic legal and administrative texts, demotic being
both a phase of the ancient Egyptian language and a script, which was in use
from the 7th century BCE until the 5th century CE. He studied at the University
of Birmingham and Christ's College Cambridge.

Research Interests

Development of the Egyptian Legal System

Administration of Late Period and Ptolemaic Egypt

Egyptian Philology

Egyptian Scripts

Late Period History and Archaeology

History and Archaeology of Memphis

His major research project is on
texts from Saqqara, the necropolis of Memphis, editing the hundreds of papyri
found during the 1960s-1970s Egypt Exploration Society excavations directed by
UCL Professors Emery, Smith and Geoffrey Martin, and publishing the archives of the funerary-workers which are now
kept in museums across Europe.

He is joint editor of the
international and high-profile journal Enchoria
(Zeitschrift für Demotistik und
Koptologie) and on the Editorial Board of one of the most prestigious
Egyptological publications, The Journal
of Egyptian Archaeology. He is involved with the documentation
and publication of the demotic text material in the papyrus collection of the
Ancient Egypt and Sudan Department at the British Museum and the legal and
administrative papyri from Tebtunis in the Carlsberg Collection in Copenhagen.

In 2017 he presented at the 13th
International Congress for Demotic Studies in Leipzig and at the Egyptian
Seminar Series in Cambridge and in 2018 he is giving papers at the Demotic
Summer School in Munich (August), The 4th British Egyptology Congress
(September) and the conference on "The Language of the Law in Ancient
Documents: Transformation and Continuity of Legal Formulae in Diachronic and
Geographic Perspective" in Leiden (November).

His expertise in demotic and the Egyptian Late,
Ptolemaic and Roman Periods complements the work of the other Egyptologists in
the department. He supports IoA undergraduate and graduate teaching in
Egyptian archaeology in these areas, wherever required by course-coordinators,
and works closely with Claudia Näser and Stephen Quirke to ensure continued
excellence in IoA BA/MA coverage of the 1st millennium BCE record in Egyptian
archaeology. In the year 2017-18 he delivered the BA class "Ptolemaic and Roman
Periods", for ARCL2012: Archaeology
of Ancient Egypt, and the MA class "(Re)constructing
Identities", for ARCLG226: Society and Culture in Ancient Egypt, as well as helping prepare the reading lists for
the courses. He is available to be involved in PhD and MA supervision in
Egyptian Archaeology and in language teaching and marking, as required.